Rush Limbaugh Trusts The FDA. Why Don’t You, Maggot Stoner?

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This Is Why You’re Stupid
Rush Limbaugh: “This is going to be a setback to the long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking crowd.”

By Bob Starrett
What does the portly pervert, drug addict and defacto head of the Republican party — Rush Limbaugh — have to say about medical marijuana?
Not a lot, it turns out. He mentions it now and again, just throws it in from time to time, but there is certainly a lack of any coherent thought on the matter. Even this pain management expert can’t seem to get a grip on it. For instance, there is this:
“The FDA says there’s no — zilch, zero, nada — shred of medicinal value to the evil weed marijuana. This is going to be a setback to the long-haired, maggot-infested, dope-smoking crowd.” That is not a position. That is just Limbaugh being Limbaugh.

Then there is this: 
“If the American people are ready for the destruction of capitalism, if the American people are ready for the destruction of the opportunity for the American dream, if the American people are ready to vote for an end to their chance to be prosperous, it must mean that a lot of them wanna sit around and do their doobies. What’s the big disconnect? If the American people are perfectly fine with limiting payments, that other people, salaries that other people can make if the’re perfectly fine with all that Obama is doing why, where is the logical conclusion that they would oppose the legalization of marijuana?”
The big disconnect is that he next mumbles his way into a confused rambling about Eric Holder  releasing Guantanamo Bay prisoners into US society after some reeducation. Limbaugh is a notorious blatherer. He can’t hold a thought, he can’t really state anything with any clarity, he just talks. And we understand that. Look, he’s high, he’s stoned, his mother dropped him on his head.

This Is Why You’re Stupid
Rush Limbaugh is a notorious blatherer. He can’t hold a thought, he can’t really state anything with clarity

​Surely he was equally impaired when he pronounced on Wednesday: “What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic; her first name is Sandra] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex – what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”
What else can explain his delay in apologizing to Ms. Fluke? Even on Friday he still didn’t understand the difference between women’s contraception and Viagra.
People usually act in their own self interest. Why would you open yourself up to potential  liability? If you are going to slander somebody, slander a public figure. Here is a young woman at the beginning of a likely lucrative career and she will begin it with this following her around. And why would you “double down” the next day? And continue on Friday?
It’s not words, it’s words and context.  He didn’t back off at all. It took a long time for that little lawyer on his shoulder to whisper in his ear, “Mitigate your damages.”

This Is Why You’re Stupid
As for Limbaugh’s half-assed apology, that is nothing more than an attempt to mitigate his damages

​But when you can’t hear, you don’t listen. I had forgotten about the rotund one’s deaf spell and it had it occurred to me that the corpulent dropout was likely deaf because of his drug addiction. That is a side effect of oxycodone and hydrocodone. Yes I know that he had cochlear implants but I am convinced that they didn’t work.
As for his half-assed apology, that is nothing more than an attempt to mitigate his damages when Ms. Fluke sues him for slander. And a poor attempt at that. According to Limbaugh’s website:
“For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.”
Well, maybe he did and maybe he didn’t. I am not sure that that is going to matter when it comes time to check the reserves and go to the settlement conference. I have left out the middle paragraph of the apology because it makes no sense whatsoever.
You can read it here.
The self-described America’s Anchorman finishes: “My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.” What synonyms would he have preferred? 
I just have this horrific image in my mind and I can’t shake it. I see Winston Churchill walking around naked in the annex to Number 10 Downing, a cigar in his mouth and and a glass of Armenian brandy in his hand. But that’s not the horrific image. It is just Churchill being Churchill.
What I can’t shake is a similar image of Rush Limbaugh walking around naked, a cigar in his mouth and a pill bottle in each hand, one Oxycontin and the other Viagra. That’s bad enough. But in my vision he has priapism and he has escaped the mansion and is wandering the streets of Palm Beach.
That, my friends is very scary; much scarier than the prospect of your kids smoking marijuana. 
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Editor’s note: Bob Starrett, with 22 years of experience with Optical Disc and Drive technology, is co-author of six books on CD and CD-ROM technology, and his published magazine work includes more than 250 articles, reviews and columns on CD-ROM, CD Recordable, DVD-ROM and DVD Recordable technology for publications including PC Magazine, EMedia Magazine, CD-ROM Professional, Digital Video Magazine, Digital Content Creator, One To One, Online, Tape-Disc Business and others. He holds a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law.

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